Wednesday, June 14, 2006
whee! i'm back from my holiday to cameron highlands! (: haha it was fun (: yayy. the weather was seriously great. it was like 22 degrees in the day time, and much lower at night [duh] cos it's quite high up. about 5000 + feet above sea level. cool right? (x whee.
haha the journey to cameron was quite fun cos it was a night coach so i had fun sleeping (: just that it was uber-cold cos the stupid aircon was blowing directly at me. :/ oooh then when we reached cameron highlands, we had to drive up this winding mountain road to get up the mountain. very fun! haha cos it was night time, and the sun wasn't shining or whatever, so i didn't get a headache.
our hotel was very clean [equatorial hotel] whee. (: me luvs clean hotels. oohh and then the tv had disney channel! apparently the hotel subscribes to cable vision. (: hee i like disney channel! i watched like at least 3 programmes before i went to sleep, and at least 2 programmes after breakfast in the morning. (: hee.
anyway. we went on 3 tours: agro, nature and leisure. (:
agro tour was really great. (: we went to look at the conventional methods of farming. and there was sooo many vegetable terraces! and most farmers grew cabbage! i like! whee. (: ohh and we went to the capsicum plantation too! the smell was very very yummy! nice and peppery. (: and the bell peppers were so colourful! hee.
cactus valley was kinda boring. i expected the cacti to be really wonderful and stuff, but they didn't turn out to be anything spectacular at all. hmm well okay, maybe they had a large variety of cacti. >< oooh i like the passion fruit there! haha and i saw a whole lot of them growing on trees. (:
next was the strawberry farm! i liked this place too! the strawberries were so nice and red, although they were supposed to be quite sour. >< their strawberry smoothie was nice! hmmm actually it wasn't really a smoothie, it was more like juice, but it still tasted nice anyway. (: a little bit tangy. we bought jam too! (: strawberries are so cute!
then at night we had this large dinner with dunno how many dishes. (: the watercress rocked. and they had this interesting vegetable called dragon's beard vegetable. then there was this horrible vegetable which was a cross between snow peas and long beans, so you can imagine how it tasted. then there was fish, chicken and noodles. the usual (:
next day was nature tour. we went to see a waterfall! it was in the forest so we had to make a short trek inside. lol it was small but nice. (: it was very cool to see the water cascading down over the rocks (x hee.
we went to one of the boh tea plantations [i can't remember what's the name now]. haha. and we went to the tea factory too! omg the smell in the factory really rocked. the tea leaves smell was really strong. (: hee.
ohh and we bought loads of tea products. like the lime fruit tea! (: and caramel teacino. and i bought a tea-leaf-shaped keychain too! (:
next, we drove up to the peak of gunung brinchang [or whatever it was called]. it's the highest peak in cameron highlands! (: then we climbed to the top of the viewing tower to take in the view of the surroundings. the steps of the tower were horrendously steep, but it was worth climbing up, cos the view was rather panoramic. [omg i sound so cliched! :/ ]
then came the horrid part of the nature tour: the mossy forest. first, i must complain about the woman who was trying to sell the tours to us. she said that this was the best part of the tour, since it was like this nice green mossy carpet, and people even took off their shoes just to experience the spongy-ness?!
i beg to differ. firstly, it was the worst part of the tour [ for me, and most other people]. and. the ground was not nice, but horrid; not green, but a disgusting shade of mud-brown; not mossy, but muddy; and not a carpet, but nothing more than muck. and not a soul took off their shoes. seriously. i felt so cheated. getting myself dirty like a pig, just to experience mud?! and we had to climb over tree trunks, squelch in the mud, and just keep climbing upwards over steps of mud. and this was in the middle of a forest, mind you. and the bloody guide was so freaking unhelpful. half the time, he just stood there and watched us struggle. sheesh. standing in front of the mud trail, i already knew what i was in for. :/ if not for the circumstances, i would not have gone.
next was leisure tour. (: it was mostly a shopping kind of tour. basically shuttling from place to place to get cameron products. it was kind of a rip-off though. like they took us to the marketplace in the afternoon when most of the shops were closed. ohh but the rose centre was quite nice. there was quite a wide variety of roses. and the roses were all so big and pretty! (:
we had steamboat for dinner! (: whee i luv steamboat. (: the soup was very nice haha. the cabbage and the vegetables rocked too! just that there was too much food for us to finish. we left quite a lot of food behind. oops :/
left for singapore the next day. we had to drive down the winding road again. this time it got quite bad, cos the sun was shining, and the road just kept on curving and curving, and we kept going round and round the countless bends. i'd never felt so sick in my whole life. :/ but after that i fell asleep so it was okay. (;
hee then after that, we stopped over at yong peng to get stuff! hee we bought lots and lots of food. like bubblegum! and laver! and peanuts and tapioca chips and banana chips and nutmeg and yam pastries! (: whee.
and that was the end of the whole trip!
and now, i'm back in old freakingly-hot singapore. and i just got bitten by a dunno what and my arms are itching. ugh. i hate this place.
reply to tags:
xinyi: haha lucky you. at least you slept! (: lol. yeah we kept eating chips too! hee i felt so gluttonish. ><
margaret: yo! yepp *winks* that was quite funny. i bet that was the highlight of the camp for you right. ><
